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Description: | Men's clothing at the end of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th was characterised by bright colour and a variety of plush fabrics. Around the middle of the Victorian era, however, sobriety and dark colours became fashionable. Two things contributed to this trend: first, the growth in clerical office jobs; second, the impracticality of wearing bright colours in an industrial city. Upper class gentlemen turned to tweed, heavy woven woolen suits that were both warm and hardwearing. The word "tweed" is a corruption of "tweel", a Scots dialect word for "twill". | License: | http://www.bl.uk/services/copy/permission.html | Rights holder: | British Library | Source: | Collect Britain | Creator: | Unknown | Identifier: | http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/personal... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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